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Can magnetized screwdriver damage earpiece speaker?

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I replaced my iphone screen and since then the earpiece speaker doesn’t work. I used multiple flex cables and screens. I have another phone that had an earpiece working, then i moved it to the phone I’m trying to fix and it doesn’t work. Then I moved it back to the original phone and the earpiece doesn’t work! I’ve spend hours exchanging parts over and over and no matter what I do I can’t get the earpiece to work in either of the phones now.

I read online that kapton tape could be the issue. Which I may try next.

But here’s one thing I noticed. The earspeaker is a magnet. And it de-magnetized my screwdriver while I was using it. So I’m thinking if it can de-magnetize my screwdriver, is it possible that my screwdriver is ruining the speaker?

This is something that is kind of driving me crazy as I can’t figure out how with all these spare parts I have, I can’t get any of them to get sound out of the ear piece speaker on 2 different phones. The only thing I can think of is either this special polyimide /kapton tape or I’m somehow destroying these parts.

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Front camera working okay?

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Yes camera front and back and everything else works. Just the earpiece won’t work

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I’d answer no to your main question, I never experienced anything like that and in years time I’ve literally gone through hundreds replacements of the kind, always with magnetized bits. I’d be more inclined to think you have a board issue of some kind, either at connector level or along some rails something is probably shorted and when you connect the earspeaker it gets burned. Unless you have tools and skills to inspect the iPhone at microscopic level you’ll probably end up burning endlessly one replacement after another. No idea how the kapton tape might help in this case.

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